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1/15/2020

Fox Playground & Outlining

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It has warmed up to -18 today, while other places further south are dipping drastically into frozen temperatures. With the warmer weather the foxes have been playing out in the yard again. Apparently my car is their new playground!!! 

It is 10:30 AM and still pitch black out - it's almost hard to believe that the light will soon eat up all the dark until there is none left. For now I am enjoying lunchtime sunrises and afternoon sunsets; the two are still close enough that sunrise blends into sunset creating cotton candy daytime skies.
Spent the day yesterday outlining - soooo much outlining! Today will be re-working the foreground. So off I go - back to the studio with my tea!!!
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1/9/2020

Warming Up

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So it seems that our cold snap in Inuvik is finally nearing the end; however, Yellowknife has an extreme cold weather warning so I am sure those chilled temperatures will swirl themselves this way soon enough. In these frigid temperatures where I was pretty lame and have tried to avoid going outside. So I have been dreaming of and painting summer colours on the tundra!
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Work in progress - summer tundra muskox
This morning it is -31 with a windchill of -36 and the air is filled with ice crystals I sent the kids off to school and am curled up at my painting table with a cup of tea and my paints! Tea of choice this morning is Stash Licorice Spice.
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12/7/2017

Sidepiece Poetry

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PictureUrchin Acrylic on paper 5"x7" - 2017

Urchin
Cling tight
Urchin
Cling to home
To love
Cling urchin
Cling
​To all that matters

PictureDelta Freeze Acrylic on paper 5"x7" - 2017
Delta Freeze
Freezing air snaps at the surface
Of the Mackenzie River
Dragging frosty jagged nails across slight waves
Bringing temperatures down
Sucking in rising water vapours
​Breathing it back as ice

PictureA Whisper in Time Acrylic on paper 5"x7" - 2017

​A Whisper in Time

Whisper carefully -
"Come home to me
After you follow all your dreams
And drift back across the sea
For I will wait
As long as it takes
For I know that you will never break"



PictureTo Each Their Own Acrylic, pen & ink on paper 5"x7" - 2017


​To Each Their Own

To each their own
Trying not to fall
When they cry
Though people see
Just what they want to see
It doesn't hurt......
If no one sees you in tears


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12/1/2017

Hot Chocolate Season

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Hot chocolate is a pretty big deal in our house in the winter months. Nothing quite says winter or December to me like a lovely mug filled with warm chocolate and on the luckier days - whipped cream with mini marshmallows (or as my children know them - Snowman Poo!)

So for my Christmas cards this year I figured I would pass on my warm wishes with some whimisical hot chocolate cheer!

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​Listening to unlimited Christmas carols while I draw and paint is bringing back memories of Decembers past with family and friends. Some brightly painted cutie cups to negate the darkness of our sunless northern sky. Stars are shining almost twenty-four hours a day now; hence making their way onto every hot chocolate cup.

Winter Warmth
Have a cup and let warm wishes surround
Hot chocolate dribbles
and marsmallow whispers
Melting memories of all Winters
together as one
Topped with fluffy clouds of cream 
making any Snowman smile

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11/16/2017

Getting it all together.....

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Oh the fun part, sorting, printing, and packaging! Getting all of my work ready for the Christmas Bazaar which starts tomorrow and continues over the lengthof the weekend.
I am soo excited to see all the amazing work as people come from all over the north to show and sell their amazing arts and crafts.
Last year was my first time attending the Inuvik Xmas fair and I was, simply put, completely blown away!

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Delta Freeze
Acrylic on paper, 5" x7"

Freezing air snaps at the Mackenzie River surface
Dragging frosty jagged nails across slight waves
Bringing temperatures down
Sucking in rising water vapours
Breathing it back as ice

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11/9/2017

Minis

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PictureProcess of "Rusty" the beluga watercolour, pen & ink, 5"x7"

​The past few weeks I have been working on some sweet Arctic cetacean minis. I thought it would be lovely to have some original pieces on hand for the Inuvik Christmas Bazaar this year. 
Sooooooooo as you can see, I did go a wee bit crazy with the belugas! I really couldn't seem to help myself and will most likely draw a couple more as they just seem to have so much charcater.
I have finished my beautiful Narwhal painting and will post pictures of it soon - I need to really practice my photography skills. 

Beluga Duo pen and ink 5"x7"
Beluga pen and ink 5"x7"
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Bowhead Whale pen and ink, watercolour 5"x7"

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10/31/2017

Halloween Fun

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       Happy Halloween!
Organ works by Bach is blaring and the doorbell is ringing like crazy. Freezing air is swirling all around my house as I hand out goody bags to Inuviks' cutest and scariest residents. The town firetruck just went by handing out treats as well! So sweet!!! 
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So my youngest was set on being a banana - I had rather hoped he would forget about it and choose one of our other costumes I had made previous years. However this was not to be, so I spent yesterday evening sewing a banana! Basically it is a banana quilt and he loves it and vowed to wear it forever. I did have a lot of fun making this costume/movie watching cuddle blanket - LOL!

The banana and 2 other costumes I have made - the honeybee and bison or Minotaur (depending on which one my kidlet chooses it to be) 
Since we live up north and either pumpkins are exceedingly expensive or there just arent any available we generally use milk jugs! Pair these with red turtle light from MEC and you really can't go wrong. My husband drew these ones as the kids were being lame this year and wouldn't draw anything!!

Guess its time to close up this candy shop as the door knockers have dwindled right off. I had 195 Trick or Treaters this year! That's up from 146 last year. Crazy!
​Hope everyone is enjoying and will enjoy their Halloween!!!!
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10/6/2017

Disappearing Days

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PictureRest Easy Under The Borealis Acrylic on wood panel 12" x 24" 2017

​Northern days are getting shorter, transferring their brightness to the lengthening night. Crazy long nights which amazingly, rather than suffocating one with overwhelming darkness, provides a canvas for the ethereal Aurora Borealis. The Borealis is a huge perk to living in northern climes. 
By far the best Northern Lights display I have yet witnessed was a time when some friends and I slept out along the river in ​Wrigley, NWT. As we lay on the shore of the Mackenzie River, cuddled deep into our sleeping bags, the lights played low and brilliantly; dancing for most of the night. With a grande finale where the Borealis swirled together, forming what looked like a giant ghostly hand which dropped lower and lower until it seemed to hover just above us. When it seemed as though it could descend no further, the lights closed into a fist, shimmering and pulsing as it ascended and dissipated into the depths of the night.

 Painting of the Mackenzie Rest Inn, a wonderful bed and breakfast located in Fort Simpson, NWT - gateway to the Nahanni National Park Reserve
Borealis
Shimmering stardust swirls
Pulsing ghosts gliding through
Aurora green tunnels, cutting through eternity
If you find yourself lost
Put your faith in the lights
And they will guide you home

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10/3/2017

So Begins The Ice

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A chill morning of hot chocolate and ice whispers. It is the time for Jack Frost to skim his freezing fingers across the top of the water, circling them along the edges of puddles and pools to give strength to his creations. Almost transparent feathers on this surface, daggers and diamonds on the next.
Every morning is a new display; for some a beauty to behold. While for others a new crust to be jumped on and crunched under rubber boots.

First in my ice formation series, playing with layers of blues. Water transforming to ice and the colour shift which follows. ​
Acrylic on paper 5" x 7"
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9/28/2017

Narwhal Love

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Process - the daunting road to a finished piece, a curve in time documented only by obsessive pics. As time can pass with me barely registering the path I took to get to the layer I am currently working on. These are not the best of pics as I take them randomly with my phone with no sense of light play or time of day. Though as the long northern days are slowly melting away into lengthening darkness I am discovering (somewhat quickly) my paltry artificial light coverage. I am realizing that I am going to have to devote some time to lamp set up!

Stargazers
Following the North Star
Breezes ripple
Swirling already agitated waters
Whipping the sea into a frenzy of night
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